Unexpected

The biggest fight

Chapter 18

"What?" Leon thought he'd heard wrong.

Sora took a slow, shaky breath, "I said," she paused, trying to steady her voice, "the father of my baby, is you." Leon's heart sank and he suddenly felt lightheaded. He sat down on the couch and stared at his cup of tea, letting the information set in. His silence scared Sora.

"Leon?" she said softly, he didn't respond. "Leon, talk to me!" she said more urgently.

"How is this possible?" he whispered, mostly to himself. He had never so much as spoken to her with any intention outside of performances, let alone did anything that could produce a child; he may have thought it but that's beside the point.

"You and I both know how something like this happens." She sat next to him, trying to stay calm; her hands were squeezed into fists hard enough for her knuckles to show white, she had visibly paled.

"It's impossible," he looked directly into her eyes. "I can't be the father." He said incredulously. "We never-"

"Apparently we did." Sora snapped as she cut him off; the hormones were still all over the place. She felt a little sorry, she knew he was in shock but he didn't need to look at her as though she was playing some cruel joke on him.

"When did this-" he gestured toward her belly, was still in shock.

"Remember the night of the party?" the look on his face said he did, at least parts of it, "You decided to walk me home and, well, I never made it home that night." She could feel her cheeks heating up, she couldn't believe she was trying to convince the man she was in love with that they had in fact slept together and the act produced the child she was now carrying.

He just stared at her for a minute, "I think I would remember something like that." He said clearly, it looked as though the shock was wearing off.

"We were drunk." She said, still trying to remain calm. "You even said yourself you didn't remember that night."

"And you did?" Sora didn't like the way he said that. Now she'd just dug her own grave.

"N-not exactly," she stuttered, looking away, her chest felt heavy. She picked up the tea which was now getting cold.

"What do you mean 'not exactly?'" he stood up behind her. "Sora, answer me!" he said when she didn't respond.

"I was drunk too!" she cried, almost spilling the tea.

"Then how do you know?" he said, his eyes turning a dark stormy violet.

"I got a paternity test." She whispered, her composure slipping.

Leon looked confused, "How did you…" he trailed off.

"I had to know." she said softly, "No matter what, I didn't mean to break in but I was desperate!" she suddenly stopped, she'd let something slip that she didn't mean to.

Then something in his face indicated that something was suddenly made clear.

"You were in my apartment?" He said in disbelief. It made sense now. His dressing room was always locked and only he and Kalos had the keys and she hadn't been close enough to him to get any DNA from him directly. This also explained the bracelet. "Is that where you got the bracelet?"

"Yes."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

Sora was silent, she wouldn't look at him.

"Sora," he said firmly, "Why did you lie to me?"

"You couldn't know." she said softly, her voice threatening to crack.